Back in 1941 ...
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share this- The war in Europe raged on, with Adolf Hitler's forces at Moscow's Door - a goal the Nazis would never reach. And with every sign pointing to the U.S. getting into the conflict, the Nazis torpedoed a U.S. tanker in the North Atlantic. It was apparent that if America was to keep aiding Britain in its gallant stance against the Axis, war was inevitable.
- Wendell Willkie, who had lost to Franklin Roosevelt for the presidency the previous year as FDR won a third term, said that there was no question of the U.S. getting into the war, and sooner was probably better. Immediately, Republican conservatives who favored isolationism and who never much cared for Willkie anyway, demanded that he be drummed out of the GOP, which did not happen. Pearl Harbor Day was just more than a month away.
- What was then called Armistice Day was coming up, and Shamokin Parade Chairman Ray Marshall said the event would feature a display of the first eight flags the U.S. had adopted.
- Chester Robertson, the district governor of the Rotary Club, was in Shamokin to address the Rotarians, and he reported on his recent trip to Mexico, where the main topic of conversation had been the possible construction of a highway between the Canadian and Mexican borders of the United States.
- In the western part of Pennsylvania, William Baker, the former Republican coroner of Washington county, was a candidate for sheriff in that county. Baker's home was levelled by a dynamite blast, but no one was home at the time. He said he had no idea why anyone would want to do such a thing.
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